A tortoise has marked her 80th birthday in style by being given a lifetime achievement award from a Leicestershire attraction ...

A tortoise who has enthralled and educated generations of visitors at the popular East Midlands family attraction where she ...

Galapagos tortoises are being threatened by an invasive tree species. Read how maintaining tortoise highways may be the best remedy.

The Philadelphia Zoo’s oldest residents have welcomed more hatchlings! Following the viral arrival of the four critically endangered Galapagos tortoise hatchlings earlier this year, the zoo has just ...

A variety of tortoise species were seen, including the Hermann's, spur-thighed, red-footed, Horsfields, leopard, marginated, and Sulcata (or African spurred) and there was also a red-eared terrapin ...

94.26% were recorded as tortoises, 3.63% terrapins and 2.11% turtles. The most common tortoise species were Hermann’s tortoise, Horsfield’s tortoise and Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise, while the ...

Currently, there are fewer than 50 of these tortoises in captivity in zoos throughout the United States. Due to their endangered species, the process of hatching these hatchlings is not only a ...

A rare Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise who is estimated to be 97 has become the oldest known first-time mother of her species, according to officials at Philadelphia Zoo. Mommy, who has ...

Sarah-May Buccieri/BBC The vet who treated the tortoise named him "Pee-wee" as they think he could be from the Hermann's species Mr Frost said the tortoise initially had "blood all over it" and ...

In Greece, there are three species of land tortoises: the so-called Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca), the Mediterranean tortoise or Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni), and the Marginated Tortoise ...

They spotted the species – a Hermann's tortoise – in the Pyrénées-Orientales on Friday, August 16. “She was hidden and in great shape,” Arnaud Spielmann, who was out walking with his son, told France ...

One of the most popular pet tortoises happens to be Hermann’s tortoise. They are a species of Mediterranean tortoise that can be found in two sub-species – the western and eastern Hermann’s tortoise.